Bark-rossing device.



G. FRIEDLUND.

BARKROSSING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 8, 1910.

973,494. Patented 0%.25, 1910.

THE NORRIS Pzrnis ca., WASHINGTON, 12:0.

CHARLES FRIEDLUND, OF MOUNTAIN, WISCONSIN.

BARK-ROSSING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25, 1910.

Application filed June 8, 1910. Serial No. 565,890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES FRIEDLUND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mountain, in the county of Oconto and State of Visconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bark-RossingDevices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bark rossing devices and has for its object toproduce a device of the kind that is simple in construction, easy ofoperation and positive in action.

With this and other objects in View the invention consists in thecombination and arrangement of parts to be fully described in thefollowing specification, pointed out in the claim and illustrated in theacco1npanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of thedevice. Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the instrument closed. Fig. 3 isa view partly in section taken 011 line 33 of Fig. 1.

Like reference characters indicate corre sponding parts throughout theseveral views.

2, 2 are the handles which are provided at their front ends with thegripping jaws 3, 3 which are pivoted together as at 4. These jaws areapproximately semi-circular in shape and are provided on theirrelatively inner edges with serrations 5, 5. The jaws lie one upon theother much the same as the blades of a pair of shears and when thehandles 2, 2 are drawn together the ends of the jaws overlap. The jawsare shaped and positioned in this manner to permit them to conform tothe shape of the trunk of a tree and should the tree be a small one theoverlapping feature will permit close conformity to the trunk thereof.

When the jaws are placed about the tree the bark is removed by forceapplied to both handles in the same direction.

What I claim is:

A bark rossing device consisting of a pair of handles provided at theirfront ends with a pair of approximately semi-circular serrated jawspivoted together and adapted to overlap each other when the handles aredrawn together.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES FRIEDLUND.

WVitnesses:

H. M. BALDWIN, OLIVER BALDWIN.

